Science: Hideouts in the Wadi

Tradition is that when young David incurred the wrath of King Saul, he
fled to the Wilderness of Judah, a forbidding desert badland just west
of the Dead Sea. Later rebels lived for years among its dry stream beds
and limestone cliffs, hiding their sacred writings in inaccessible
caves. In 1947, a Bedouin shepherd boy crawled into one such cave,
found the first of these writings: the famous Dead Sea Scrolls. Since
then, Israeli archaeologists have watched in alarm as Bedouins
haphazardly ransacked the caves for more fragments of parchment and
papyrus, often sneaking across the Jordan border to rifle...